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To: John Graybill who wrote (43078)	2/17/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 53903

DRDRAMs To Total 8.8% Of World's DRAM Output: Survey Wednesday, February 17, 1999 TOKYO (Nikkei)--Worldwide production of Direct Rambus DRAM chips (DRDRAMs) is projected at 186 million 64-megabit-equivalent units in 1999, according to a Nikkei Marketing Access survey. On a bit basis, DRDRAMs will comprise about 8.8% of this year's total DRAM production, a share expected to climb to 50% by 2001. According to the survey, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co. will supply about 30% of the DRDRAMs made in 1999. Micron Technology Inc. of the U.S. and LG Semiconductor Co. of South Korea will follow at 18% each, trailed by Japanese firms such as Toshiba Corp. (6502) and NEC Corp. (6701). The move toward making higher-capacity memory chips is accelerating as per-bit production costs fall, and 128- and 144-megabit chips are expected to comprise more than half of all DRAM output by the fourth quarter of 1999.